ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 731, 



J", alpinum. Panicle pale green, slender ; leaves long ; 

 spatlielles 1 -flowered. 



P. 135. 

 XXXVII.* 78.* HIEROCHLOA. Gmel. Sacred-grass. 



Glume 2-flowered ; spathelles membranaceous, nearly as 

 long as the glumelles ; spathelbdes 2 ; lower paperlike, mu- 

 cronate; upper 2-cut, toothed; side flowers male, 3-sta- 

 mened ; middle flower hermaphrodite, 2-stamened ; lodi- 

 cule nearly orbicular ; ovary beaked ; style nearly simple ; 

 stigma bottlebrushlike ; cariopsis free, not furrowed. — Pa- 

 nicle branched. 



Hierochloa horealis. Northern sacred-grass. 



Panicle nearly facing one way ; peduncles bald ; outer 

 spathellules fringed on the edge ; awns 0. 



Hierochloa borealis, Reenter &; Schutz Syst. Veg. 2, 513. 



Helens odoratusj Lin. S. P. 1405. 



Hierochloa, Gmelin Siber. 1, 101. 



Avena odorala, De Candolle Fl. Gall. 1565. 



Holcus borealis, Schrader. 



Savastana hirta, Schrank Fl. Bat. 1, 337. 



In mountain valleys ; perennial ; July. 



Leaves linear, acuminate; panicle brownish; hermaphro- 

 dite flowret smaller than the males ; locustce ovate ; spathelles 

 ovate, pointed, rather serrated at the point. 



P. 168. 23.Juncuspolycephalus. Many-headed junk. 



Leaves awlshape, rounded, jointed ; panicle terminal, 

 upright, 2 or 3-forked; branches seldom divided; heads 

 many-flowered, lateral and terminal, nearly sessile ; sepales 

 lanceolate, pointed; capside elliptical, ovate, rather blunt, 

 slightly longer than the sepales. 



Juncus polycephalus, Bonn. 



On alpine heights. 



Heads few but large, 5 to 8-flowered. 



P. 176. Phalangium serotinum. 



Lyodia alpina, R. A. Salisbury in Hort. Trans. 



P. 185. Asparageae, not asparagi. 

 Peduncles jointed in the middle. 

 P. 189. Tamacese. 



Perisperm cartilaginous, hard ; corculum cylindrical, op- 

 posite to the byle. 



P. 192. Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Lin, S. P. 414. 

 P. 215. Corallorhiza innata. 



Found in Darent Wood, Kent, Aug. IS, 1819, by J. E. 

 Gray. 



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